Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

Ka­mala Har­ris and Don­ald Trump are mak­ing their fi­nal push­es in key states in the U.S. Pres­i­den­tial race’s clos­ing days.

This as a new AP-NORC poll re­veals that about 7 in 10 Amer­i­cans re­port feel­ing anx­ious or frus­trat­ed about the 2024 pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, and a sim­i­lar share say they’re in­ter­est­ed. On­ly about one-third say they feel ex­cit­ed.

Trump is trav­el­ing to New Mex­i­co, a risky de­tour from the sev­en bat­tle­ground states to spend time in places where Re­pub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates haven’t won in decades.

Mean­while, Har­ris con­firmed that her elec­tion night event will be held at Howard Uni­ver­si­ty, one of the na­tion’s best known his­tor­i­cal­ly Black col­leges.

The fol­low­ing are key high­lights from both can­di­dates’ cam­paigns, to­day…

Trump tells New Mex­i­co he’s the on­ly one who can fix the bor­der cri­sis

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, JONATHAN J. COOP­ER

At a New Mex­i­co ral­ly, Trump tells his sup­port­ers that his ad­vi­sors told him he didn’t need to come to New Mex­i­co be­cause he wouldn’t be able to win the state.

But he asked for ral­ly go­ers in Al­bu­querque to turnout the vote for him in the bor­der state.

“One of the rea­sons we will win this state is you have one of the worst bor­der prob­lems of any state and I’m the on­ly one who will fix it,” he said.

And Trump once again took aim at his for­mer De­mo­c­ra­t­ic ri­val, Joe Biden, call­ing him a “lit­tle los­er” who quit af­ter pres­sure from Har­ris and De­moc­rats.

“This can on­ly hap­pen to me. I’m the one to have to fight two peo­ple, not one,” the GOP can­di­date told his sup­port­ers. “We spent $150 mil­lion beat­ing this guy and I nev­er even men­tioned her name.”

Har­ris says Trump’s com­ments on women at his lat­est ral­ly were ‘very of­fen­sive’

By CHRISTO­PHER MEGERIAN

Ka­mala Har­ris said Thurs­day that Don­ald Trump’s com­ments on women at his lat­est ral­ly were “very of­fen­sive.”

“He does not pri­or­i­tize the free­dom of women and the in­tel­li­gence of women to make de­ci­sions about their own lives and bod­ies,” she said.

Har­ris’ re­marks to re­porters in Madi­son were a re­sponse to Trump’s promise in Green Bay that he would “pro­tect the women of our coun­try.”

“I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not,” Trump had said.

Ka­mala Har­ris al­so said Thurs­day that the health­care pro­tec­tions in the Af­ford­able Care Act are on the line in the 2024 elec­tion.

She cit­ed Re­pub­li­can House Speak­er Mike John­son who told Don­ald Trump’s sup­port­ers at a Penn­syl­va­nia event this week that there would be “mas­sive re­form” to the law if the for­mer pres­i­dent win’s next week.

The Re­pub­li­can Speak­er was asked di­rect­ly dur­ing the event, “No Oba­macare,” re­fer­ring to the health­care law signed by for­mer Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma in 2010. John­son re­spond­ed by say­ing, “No Oba­macare.”

“I have been say­ing through­out this cam­paign, be very clear, that among the stakes in this elec­tion are whether we con­tin­ue with the Af­ford­able Care Act, or not,” Har­ris told re­porters on Thurs­day morn­ing in Wis­con­sin.

“It has been a part of Don­ald Trump’s agen­da for a very long time. He has made dozens of at­tempts to get rid of the ACA and now we have fur­ther val­i­da­tion of that agen­da from his sup­port­er, the speak­er of the House.”

Giu­liani casts his bal­lot in Flori­da

By STEPHANY MATAT

For­mer New York City May­or Rudy Giu­liani vot­ed in West Palm Beach Thurs­day af­ter­noon, the same day that rep­re­sen­ta­tives of elec­tions work­ers who won a defama­tion judg­ment against him went to Giu­liani’s apart­ment to take in­ven­to­ry of his be­long­ings.

The for­mer may­or ap­peared at the Gaines Park Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter at about 1 p.m. in a suit, and he wait­ed in line to en­ter the com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter like all oth­er vot­ers. Giu­liani took about 30 min­utes to vote — his first time vot­ing in Flori­da.

Giu­liani said vot­ing in Flori­da was faster and more trans­par­ent than in New York. He said he al­ways vot­ed in New York, even when work­ing in pres­i­den­tial ad­min­is­tra­tions—un­til this year.

While vot­ing, Giu­liani said he thought about this coun­try run by a regime he said was sim­i­lar to a “ba­nana re­pub­lic.” Giu­liani said that this is the on­ly ad­min­is­tra­tion that would pros­e­cute op­po­nents, in­clud­ing him­self and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

Giu­liani was or­dered by a U.S. dis­trict judge last week to turn over prized pos­ses­sions and his New York City apart­ment to two Geor­gia elec­tions work­ers who won a $148 mil­lion defama­tion judg­ment against him in De­cem­ber.

Giu­liani did not con­firm or dis­cuss any rep­re­sen­ta­tives be­ing in his New York City apart­ment, but he said that in that case with the elec­tion work­ers he didn’t “get a chance to de­fend my­self.”

Giu­liani said that he be­lieves this case will be re­versed on ap­peal.

“It will prob­a­bly be one of the most un­fair tri­als in Amer­i­can his­to­ry, with the ex­cep­tion of the J6 peo­ple.”

Howard Uni­ver­si­ty in Wash­ing­ton will be Har­ris’ elec­tion night HQ

By DAR­LENE SU­PERVILLE

Har­ris’ cam­paign an­nounced Thurs­day that her elec­tion night event will be held at Howard, one of the na­tion’s best known his­tor­i­cal­ly Black col­leges.

Har­ris is a Howard grad­u­ate who earned a bach­e­lor’s de­gree in 1986.

Trump cam­paign seizes on re­marks about women by Har­ris sup­port­er

By JILL COLVIN

Trump’s cam­paign is seiz­ing on re­marks from top Har­ris sur­ro­gate Mark Cuban, who said, “You nev­er see” Trump “around strong, in­tel­li­gent women — ever.”

The state­ment was made in an in­ter­view with “The View.” It drew im­me­di­ate re­buke from Re­pub­li­can women, in­clud­ing Trump’s cam­paign chief, Susie Wiles.

“I’m told @mcuban needs help iden­ti­fy­ing the strong and in­tel­li­gent women sur­round­ing Pres. Trump. Well, here we are!” she wrote in a rare me­dia post.

Mark Cuban says Trump’s tar­iffs will make hol­i­day gift prices soar

By JILL COLVIN

Busi­ness leader Mark Cuban said at a ral­ly Thurs­day that if Trump is elect­ed in No­vem­ber, his tar­iffs pro­pos­al would make hol­i­day gifts cost 60% more than they are now.

“You won’t be able to af­ford the presents you want for your fam­i­ly and friends,” he said. The choice, he said, is to elect Har­ris.

Cuban spoke at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-La Crosse cam­pus.

JD Vance says Trump float­ed VP idea at ral­ly where he was shot

By FARNOUSH AMIRI

Sen. JD Vance has told pod­cast­er Joe Ro­gan that Trump first broached the top­ic of the Ohio law­mak­er be­ing his run­ning mate on the morn­ing of the Ju­ly 13 Penn­syl­va­nia ral­ly where Trump was shot.

The for­mer pres­i­dent then sug­gest­ed that Vance ac­com­pa­ny him to the But­ler ral­ly lat­er that day where they would an­nounce the vice-pres­i­den­tial pick to­geth­er on stage.

Trump end­ed up chang­ing his mind and go­ing to the cam­paign stop on his own.

Walz: Trump ‘damn near killed him­self get­ting in­to a garbage truck’

By DAN MER­I­CA

Don­ald Trump got in­to a white garbage truck decked out with Amer­i­can flags and his cam­paign lo­go, hop­ing to draw at­ten­tion to Biden’s com­ment that seemed to com­pare Trump sup­port­ers to “garbage”.

Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz said Thurs­day that for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump “damn near killed him­self” when he got in­to a garbage truck be­fore an event on Wednes­day night.

Trump got in­to the truck be­fore an event in Wis­con­sin to draw at­ten­tion to Pres­i­dent Joe Biden say­ing on Tues­day night “the on­ly garbage I see float­ing out there is his sup­port­ers.” Biden was re­spond­ing to a co­me­di­an at a Trump ral­ly call­ing Puer­to Ri­co a “float­ing is­land of garbage.”

Biden lat­er tried to clar­i­fy his state­ment, ar­gu­ing he was re­fer­ring to the co­me­di­an’s de­mo­niza­tion of Lati­no vot­ers.

“This dude is near­ly 80 years old. He damn near killed him­self get­ting in­to a garbage truck,” Walz said at an event in Penn­syl­va­nia. The com­ment came as Walz was try­ing to make an eco­nom­ic point about tar­iffs that Trump pledges to im­ple­ment if elect­ed.

“You would think over 80 years you would un­der­stand how a tar­iff works,” he said. “Smarter peo­ple than Don­ald Trump, which is a good chunk of folks… have gone on the record to say if Don­ald Trump goes for­ward with this plan, they will sim­ply have to raise prices and pass them on to you.”

“Don­ald Trump say­ing Chi­na will pay for those tar­iffs the same way Mex­i­co paid for the wall,” Walz said. “It’s not go­ing to hap­pen.”

Hillary Clin­ton to cam­paign for Har­ris in Tam­pa

By STEPHANY MATAT

Hillary Clin­ton will cam­paign in Tam­pa, Flori­da, on Sat­ur­day for Har­ris just days be­fore the elec­tion.

The 2016 De­mo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee and for­mer sec­re­tary of state will be at­tend­ing two get-out-the-vote events to en­cour­age vot­ers to cast their bal­lots ear­ly.

Clin­ton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 elec­tion, spoke at the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Na­tion­al Con­ven­tion in sup­port of the vice pres­i­dent.

Elec­tion Day tra­di­tion will bring vot­ers to Su­san B. An­tho­ny’s grave

By CAR­OLYN THOMP­SON

Thou­sands of women are ex­pect­ed to vis­it the grave of Su­san B. An­tho­ny af­ter cast­ing their bal­lots as a trib­ute to the suf­frag­ist who got ar­rest­ed for do­ing the same.

With Ka­mala Har­ris on the pres­i­den­tial bal­lot, the crowds are ex­pect­ed to ri­val those seen in 2016 when an­oth­er woman, Hillary Clin­ton, was the nom­i­nee. An es­ti­mat­ed 10,000 peo­ple passed through Rochester, New York’s Mount Hope Ceme­tery that Elec­tion Day, mak­ing their way along a grav­el foot­path to cov­er An­tho­ny’s head­stone with “I Vot­ed” stick­ers and flow­ers.

The ceme­tery says it is ready for what’s be­come an Elec­tion Day tra­di­tion. Pro­tec­tive plas­tic now cov­ers An­tho­ny’s head­stone so the stick­ers won’t do dam­age and vol­un­teers, and ex­tra se­cu­ri­ty will be in place.

On Nov. 5, 1872, An­tho­ny de­fied the law by cast­ing a vote in the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, lead­ing to a charge of “know­ing­ly vot­ing with­out hav­ing a law­ful right to vote.” She was found guilty at tri­al - but re­fused to pay the $100 fine. She died 14 years be­fore rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the 19th Amend­ment giv­ing women the con­sti­tu­tion­al right to vote.

Who’s tex­ting me? Oh, not again ...

By CALVIN WOOD­WARD, JEFF AMY, JONATHAN J. COOP­ER

Across the U.S., phones are ping­ing with text mes­sages from the Trump and Har­ris cam­paigns.

Both sides are work­ing the tex­ting pipeline ag­gres­sive­ly in the pres­i­den­tial cam­paign’s last days. It’s a cheap and easy way to reach po­ten­tial donors and vot­ers.

It’s al­so an­noy­ing to a lot of peo­ple.